President Donald Trump threw cold water on the plans to build a new FBI headquarters in Maryland during a speech at the Justice Department on Friday, adding new uncertainty into a contentious and yearslong issue for lawmakers.
The General Services Administration has picked Greenbelt, Md., as the home of the new FBI headquarters, after a lengthy and high-profile competition over where the new facility would be built, and Congress has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars for the headquarters project.
Trump said in his speech, which focused more broadly on combating fentanyl trafficking and criticism of Justice Department actions against him during the Biden administration, that the FBI and the Justice Department “have to be near each other.”
